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Africa Wins Again: Far Cry 2's literary approach to narrative". Infovore.org. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012 . Retrieved 17 June 2015. Achebe, Chinua (2000). "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 2 (7th edition), p. 2036. Isaacs, Matt (November 17, 1999). "Agent Provocative". SF Weekly. Archived from the original on June 12, 2009 . Retrieved May 2, 2009. In 1969, during the Vietnam War, U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz is waging a brutal guerrilla war against NVA, Viet Cong and Khmer Rouge forces without permission from his commanders, based at a remote jungle outpost in eastern Cambodia, where he commands American, Montagnard and local Khmer militia troops, who see him as a demigod.

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Also the Redux version moves the scene where Lance waterskies from before the crew meets Kilgore to after The early cut, which was around five-and-a-half hours long, was scored using exclusively The Doors songs. However, Coppola later put together an original score while highlighting the sole masterpiece from The Doors. A poem of Morrison was also featured in the movie, but the scene got removed later. The poem, named ‘Letter from Mrs. Kurtz,’ is the apparent letter Martin Sheen’s character can be seen reading in the deleted scene.Milius, John& Coppola, Francis Ford (2001) Apocalypse Now Redux: An Original Screenplay. Talk Miramax Books/Hyperion ISBN 0-7868-8745-1 Morel, E.D. (1968). History of the Congo Reform Movement. Ed. William Roger Louis and Jean Stengers. London: Oxford UP. pp.205, n.

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Charles Higham (May 15, 1977). "Coppola's Vietnam Movie Is a Battle Royal: Francis Ford Coppola's Battle Royal". The New York Times. p.77. Other added material includes extra combat footage before Willard meets Kilgore, a scene in which Willard's team steals Kilgore's surfboard (which sheds some light on the hunt for the mangoes), a follow-up scene to the dance of the Playboy Playmates, in which Willard's team finds the Playmates stranded after their helicopter has run out of fuel (trading two barrels of fuel for two hours with the Bunnies), and a scene of Kurtz reading from a Time magazine article about the war, surrounded by Cambodian children.Francis Ford Coppola: 'Apocalypse Now is not an anti-war film' ". the Guardian. August 9, 2019 . Retrieved October 1, 2022. Bettinger, Brendan (April 28, 2010). "What If Lee Marvin Starred in a Brando-less Apocalypse Now?". Collider. Archived from the original on July 9, 2021 . Retrieved October 8, 2021. But really, my most important objection was the very one that Nguyen helped me see: Coppola and his team paid zero attention to the Vietnamese people. They were nothing more than props to surround the true heroes, aka the Americans. About the only saving grace of the movie is that they didn't (couldn't) film it in Vietnam. Appelo, Tim (August 30, 2014). "Telluride: Francis Ford Coppola Spills 'Apocalypse Now' Secrets on 35th Anniversary". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on September 2, 2014 . Retrieved August 25, 2018.